David Zulke wrote:> 1) memory consumption is a lot lower, e.g. when iterating over 1000> rows to display them, a row is fetched, the data is displayed, and> the GC can then go ahead and destroy the object.

Think, that should be an option. Sometimes, i want do iterator over aresultset and to write baseobjects with special information into an array orsomething like that. PDO handles it the same way - Fetchmode gives youspecial options for fetching as object: